Sex and the City 2 is on...

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And WTF were they thinking

I've seen it before, but I'd forgotten how utterly appalling it is!

I don't even know where to start.

Carrie has just entered in her tuxedo for the gay wedding scene....

It’s so racist.
That poor ‘butler’ who has t work like a fucking dog running around after a bunch of entitled whiny white women.
He’s basically slave labour so he can’t afford to go home to his wife.
And fucking Carrie thinks she’s some sort of white saviour who leaves him an envelope of money because she’s ‘learnt’ so much from this poor slave Arab man. Who knew they had so much in common she thinks.

Agh agh.

The Mark Kermode review (he addresses this very issue I think) is great

Who knew that the "punishment" for kissing a man other than your husband was a giant engagement ring?!

I'm also bugged by the end when the guy comes to America and he and Samantha start to have sex in public. We may not be as prudish here in the US as they are in Dubai, but I think you'll find having sex in public is still illegal.

Definitely so bad it's good! I watched it tonight right to the end couldn't help it hahahahaha

Hummm I didn't think much of the first film tbh. Love the series though. I've never watched this one and I'm pretty ok with that decision based on these reviews!

www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/07/29/difficult-women

New Yorker article on why the TV show was so brilliant.

ugh just remembered them all wearing designer gear on camels.. Charlotte with her camel toe.. what a pun hoho

"It’s dreadful. And I loved satc. Let’s all pretend it doesn’t exist - yes?"

I explain to DH the terrible disappointment of Satc2 by saying it's our Phantom Menace.

Been watching it. Samantha was getting on my nerves not putting a top on and then waving condoms around. In real life she'd be on absolute shit and she should abide by their laws. Then the women come to save them... it's toooo cringe. Tbf I'm quite shocked it had such an open stance against womens repression. 'Religious men are clever' when explaining belly dancers. Seems quite un pc by today's standards to say it.

Was this the one where Charlotte (so annoyingly prissy and perfect) didn't eat any of the dirty Mexican food ... or was that the first?

I was really distracted by how bad Carrie looks in this movie. The hair, make-up and styling were all wrong. I thought she looked nice in the green mini dress, but that was about it.

As for the movie, it's obviously not a patch on the TV series, but I quite enjoy it in a guilty pleasure/car crash/'so bad it's good' kind of way

I'd forgotten about the karaoke scene, so that was fun to watch. What was with the weird singing and why was Samantha dressed like a transvestite? It was more Loose Women than Sex And The City.

Congrats OP

I think you have managed the impossible... made an observation here that absolutely everyone agrees completely with you!

Hideously insulting and culturally offensive. Plus so obviously an uglified Marrakesh, the only place that would let them film and also the only mistake Marrakesh has ever made in all it's life as an otherwise gorgeous wonderful place, with awkward extras in burkas. Dubai refused and they seem to have responded by ignoring absolutely everything about Dubai!

I'm pretending it didn't happen too.

I'm also bugged by the end when the guy comes to America and he and Samantha start to have sex in public. We may not be as prudish here in the US as they are in Dubai, but I think you'll find having sex in public is still illegal.

And the voiceover from Carrie says something about being ‘back in the land of the free’ at that point!

I genuinely have only watched the film once, several years ago, but I was so angry that all these tiny details are forever etched into my brain!

It was so bad I couldn't watch til the end. Can't get over how weirdly breathy, over dramatic, and annoying Carrie is, how did I ever like her!!

YES! It's so appallingly bad! The Charlotte breakdown in the pantry after the cupcake baking / handprints on expensive skirt debacle is just so insulting and pathetic. And the karaoke! Not a chance in hell the SATC girls from the TV show would ever get up on stage and sing, and especially not something as cheesy as I Am Woman. Must admit though, me and DP sometimes watch it just so we can slag it off, it's quite cathartic shouting at the TV!

Such an awful film. It just limps from one set piece to another. It's as if the writers just had a list of scenes they wanted to do - gay wedding, film premiere, camel ride, karaoke, horrible "look at how these Muslim women are just like us" reveal etc - and then tried and failed to link them together.

The excessive consumerism is horrible too. The characters were well off in the series but they seem to have morphed into the super rich in this film.

Yes, enjoyed Mark Kermode's review. They really did jump the shark with this film.

Absolute racist drivel

I have seen the film a couple of times and it really is terrible. I loved the TV series on the whole and the first film was great but I don't know what they were thinking with this one. Pretty much every storyline they put in made you hate the characters they'd spent years making you love. Even Samantha wasn't likeable and she was always the one you liked.

Thanks for the backup! I was worried for a second.

The four of them ‘hilariously’ running through a souk hiding from some angry Arab men, disguised in burkhas lent to them by some local women who - PLOT TWIST - also like designer clothes! You guys! They’re just like us! Who knew?!

I hate it. I hate it.

I HATE IT.

This!

@Plantlover

I enjoyed the cgi and the action but the plot was a bit ropey and cliched. Wouldn't bother to see it again.

Think the boys (10 ranging up to 16) enjoyed it. Couple of grim moments.

It's jaw-droppingly bad isn't it. From Carrie smiling in condescending sympathy to the 'repressed local woman' to...everything else.
I felt a bit grubby at the end, I felt like I'd watched the complete humiliation and exploitation of Kim Cattrall.

So so awful
I like to forget it ever existed and see the first film as the end!!

Samantha is supposedly SO good at her job that someone would pay for her and three friends to stay in a hotel for weeks, each with their own private wing and a full-time butler. We’re supposed to believe that she’s this incredibly talented international businesswoman, yet all she does is go around offending and insulting people the entire time she’s there. Her throwing condoms around in the market is particularly awful to watch!

I mostly hate it. But thought the one decent scene, where there was an iota of realism and self reflection was actually the one where Miranda and Charlotte toast the parents that dont have help.